EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City’s Department of Public Service (DPS) is engaged in the FRA - Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) - Cleveland Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - (PID 94357; 3163 Dr E), Public Improvement Project (“Public Project”). The City must acquire certain fee simple title and lesser real property interests located in the vicinity of the right-of-way of Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215 (collectively, “Real Estate”) in order to for DPS to timely complete the Public Project. The City passed Ordinance Number 0567-2015 authorizing the City Attorney to acquire the Real Estate. Furthermore, the City also adopted Resolutions 0152x-2015, 0214x-2015, and 0020x-2016 establishing the City’s intent to appropriate the Real Estate. However, DPS modified the Public Project requiring the City to acquire and accept certain additional or modified fee simple title and lesser real property interests located in the vicinity of the public right-of-way of Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215 since the adoption of Resolutions 0152x-2015, 0214x-2015, and 0020x-2016 (“Modified Real Estate”).
The City Attorney will acquire and accept the Modified Real Estate in the applicable names of the City of Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation (i.e. City), Board of Commissioners, Franklin County, Ohio, a body politic and corporate organized and existing pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 301 (“Franklin County”), City of Westerville, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation (“Westerville”), and the Central Ohio Transit Authority, a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 306 (“COTA”), necessary to complete the Public Project pursuant to the City’s partnerships with Franklin County, Westerville, and COTA in completing the Public Project. Accordingly, the City intends to appropriate and accept the Modified Real Estate in the applicable names of the City, Franklin County, Westerville, and COTA in the event the City Attorney is unable to (i...
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